What to do if your Kingston pen drive got corrupted

A pen drive is a portable storage space device which is capable of taking care of your storage requirements. Back in the days, these devices were not able to hold more than a hundred megabytes, but now, as the technology gets more and more complex, a pen drive can easily store up to 120 GB and even more.

Kingston is one of the largest supplier of flash memory because they are affordable, high-capacity, and totally portable. However, your Kingstone flash drive might get corrupted. If you’re dealing with this situation, try one of the various methods described below in order to fix your problem.

Steps to fix corrupted Kingston pen drive issues

Solution1: Try another USB port

It could be possible that the USB port itself is damaged or some software issue is to be blamed for your corrupted Kingston pen drive. So, if you repeatedly tried to connect your Kingston pen drive to a single USB port on your computer, a good suggestion is to try other USB ports as well.

Solution 2: Try to use the flash drive on another PC

Maybe the issue is specifically on your PC, and that is the reason why you are finding trouble in running your Kingston pen drive. Try connecting your pen drive to another computer. Hopefully, it may work, and you will be able to backup your data from it.

Solution 3: Change the drive letter

Sometimes your computer is unable to assign drive letters (like C, D, E) to your Kingstone pen drive. Due to this reason, the files on it cannot be accessed. To solve this issue, you can assign the drive letter to your device. Here are the simple steps to fix the corrupted pen drive or memory card by assigning a correct drive letter:

Connect your Kingstone pen drive to your computer.

Right-click on This PC

Click Manage in the drop-down menu

Click Disk Management on the left side and wait for a few seconds so that Windows can load the Virtual disk service.

Solution 6: Windows Explorer

Another solution you can try is using Windows Explorer as this is one of the most commonly used procedure to repair a connected storage media to your computer:

Open This PC

Right click on your corrupted Kingstone drive pen

Click Format in the drop-down menu

Afterwards, click Restore Device Defaults in the popup window

Click Start to begin the format process. You can uncheck the Quick format option if you want the computer to deep scan the pen drive for errors but this will take time. Our suggestion is to uncheck it only if you fail in the first attempt.

Click Ok in the next dialog box which will warn you that the data will be lost

Solution 7: Remove the bad sectors

Our storage devices store data in different sectors. Due to various reasons, these sectors become unusable, giving rise to bad sectors. Check Disk is used to perform an error check operation on your connected pen drive:

Open CMD in administrator mode – right click on the Start button and click Command Prompt (Admin)

Solution 8: Repair corrupted pen drive without formatting

Go to This PC and right click on the Kingston pen drive in order to open its Properties

Click on the Tools tab and then click the Check button. Afterwards, let the scan process get completed

Right-click the icon of the Kingston pen drive and click Eject. Then remove the pen drive from the USB port.

Solution 9: Reinstall drivers

There are times when the drivers that run your pen drive gets corrupted. To fix your drivers problems, you will need to know the particular model of the Kingston pen drive you are having problems with. Once you have the details you can search the Kingston website for your drivers and, if available, download and install these drivers.

All in all, that is how you can fix your corrupted Kingston pen drive. If you tried other methods that help you solve this problem, we would be very glad if you shared that experience with us in the comments section below.